OpenGL and Glut libraries

[snl]

I need to compile a program which requires OpenGL and Glut libraries. I tried searching for glut, mesa, opengl, and it came up with several packages. Which package will I need to install?

Thank you.

[motang]

Good question I haven't done it myself yet but I shall try to take a shot at it. First you need to the files (.h and .cpp I am assuming that it's a C++ program). Now easy way to do it have a folder with the gult libraries and call for in your makefile.

OR

You can add the location of the files in .bash_profile I think it goes something like

PATH=location/of/your/files/

this should work unless if I have it wrong considering I haven't done this in 4 years. I am going to try it out when I get home and I shall update you on it if it works out for me.

[bukwirm]

mesa-common-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev freeglut3-dev libglut3-dev

Those are the ones I appear to have installed - you may not need them all - try the ones in bold first and see if the rest install as dependancies.

[slavik]

when installing libfreeglut3-dev, it will install needed things as dependencies.

then you just link your program to glut via -lglut (it will link for OpenGL, GLU and GLUT)

[mozza314]

Hi, I am also trying to compile in OpenGL. I have compiled simple C++ programs before just using:
g++ <file>

But I don't know how to compile a C++ OpenGL program. Can you please give me an explanation and an example which will compile a C++ OpenGL program? I'm pretty sure I have all the required libraries after looking into this a few days ago, but I couldn't manage to compile anything. I've been told I need to set some options at the command line.

Also, any good resources for learning OpenGL through C++?

Please shed some light on this for me.

[fct]

Compiling C++ files using glut is as simple as this:

$ g++ -lglut file.cpp

As for resources for learning glut with C++, the same ones for glut with C will serve.

Here is a nice introduction:

http://mind****.de-brauwer.be/articles/glut/

[amo-ej1]

hey i wrote that page

[fct]

It was quite useful to me back in the CG course.

[galileon]

cheers for the link, im looking into gl programming, and couldn't get anything to produce better than a blank window - the teapot appeared from the link, so its gonna work now...yay!

[coder_]

I've been wanting to get back into 3D graphics programming (after quitting it for GUI application development in Linux), and that looks like a nice tutorial, amo-ej1.

Do you think it is worth it doing raw OpenGL over a 3D engine like Irrlicht? I'm not sure whether I want to use a prebuilt engine or not...